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M. N. NIXON.

I GUFP SUPPORTER. v No. 385,681. Patented July 3, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN N. NIXON, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA.

CUFF-SUPPORTER.

EPECIPICATIUN forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,681, dated July 3, 1888.

Application filed April 30, 1888. Serial No. 272.264. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN N. NIXON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Richmond, in the county of \Vayne and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuff-Supporters, of which the following is a specification, ref erenoe being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Myinvention relates to that class of supportsused for connecting a cuff to a shirt sleeve.

It consists of a support made of spring-wire in a single piece, the upper portion of which is in the form of an ordinary safety-pin.

In the drawings, Figure 2 is a side elevation of my supporter. Fig. 1 is a top plan View. Fig. 3 is a perspective showing the pin fastened in position for use.

In Fig. 1, a is a horizontal straight bar of wire, the end of which, 0, is turned down at right angles and terminates in a curved catch, g, to receive the point of the pin (1. The wire bar a is formed into an offsetting loop, 17, at 7L, and the bar is parallel with its first section to a point at or near the center of its length, where it is formed into a loop, 0, which encircles said first section, forming an elastic support or hinge for the end section of the wire bar I), terminating in a point, (2, constituting it a safety-pin, the bar of which, b, can be moved into or out of the catch g by the spring of the loop e. When the loop 6 is passed through the button-holes ofa cuff, and the cuffsupport is brought into the same plane with the surface of the cuff, the shoulder h engages with the edges of the button'hole, while the loop i, resting on the inner surface of the cuff and the parallel bars on the opposite side of the shoulder h, presses against the outer sur face of the culf, thus holding the ends of the cuff together, as the two disks of an ordinary sleevebutton. \Vheu the support is thus at tached to the cuff, the pinbar b is inserted into the shirt sleeve at any point desired to secure the cuff in the proper position, and is caught up and held in the catch 9, which completes the adjustment.

I am aware that culi' holders have been used in which an offsetting loop is shown. This I do not claim; but

Vhat I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The improved cuff supporter described. composed of a single piece of material formed with offset loop 2', catch 9, point (I, and loop e between the offset loop and the catch, and embracing the bar a of the supporter, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARTIN N. NIXON.

Witnesses:

W. T. DENNIS, IV. A. PEELLE. 

